adam@lamont.Columbia.edu (adam levin) (04/25/88)
I have a C Ltd hard disk and SCSI controller, and I've gotten very
frustrated backing it up to floppies. CLtd [(316) 267-3807] is
selling a 60 Meg tape backup unit that uses a Teac tape mechanism,
and one price I was quoted was $1,150 !!
A company called First Class Peripherals [(800) 982-3232] also sells
a tape unit which looks like it uses the Teac mechanism ("The Sider T6",
60 Meg, SCSI) for $800 but they don't support the Amiga.
Teac does sell a 60 Meg tape unit with SCSI interface, but only to
distributors and OEMs.
However, the CLtd-Teac driver software is up on their bulletin board
(316) 267-1222, free for the asking!
Does this give anyone else some ideas?
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ARPA: lamont!adam@columbia.eduadam@lamont.Columbia.edu (adam levin) (04/27/88)
In article <522@lamont.Columbia.edu>, adam@lamont.Columbia.edu (I) wrote: > I have a C Ltd hard disk and SCSI controller, and I've gotten very > frustrated backing it up to floppies. CLtd [(316) 267-3807] is > selling a 60 Meg tape backup unit that uses a Teac tape mechanism, > and one price I was quoted was $1,150 !! > A company called First Class Peripherals [(800) 982-3232] also sells > a tape unit which looks like it uses the Teac mechanism ("The Sider T6", > 60 Meg, SCSI) for $800 but they don't support the Amiga. In my search for a cheaper tape backup unit, I found that Computer Mail Order [(800) 233-8950] had the C Ltd. unit for about $850. I called the place that gave me the $1150 quote (Computer Mart [(800) 443-8236]) and they said that they had quoted from an erroneous C Ltd. dealer price sheet. Instead they would let me have the 60T for $840. However, I chose not to buy at this time, because when I called C Ltd. to find out if multiple volumes could be backed up to a single tape ("Yes"), they told me that because of the speed of AmigaDOS, the 60T 60Meg TEAC tape unit would only backup 20 Megs per tape. Hopefully this will change with the Fast Filing System, but they aren't even going to start trying until Commodore nails down WB3.1. -- Phone: (914) 359-2900 x340 Post: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory / Palisades, NY 10964 USENET: {ihnp4, decvax, seismo} philabs!lamont!adam ARPA: lamont!adam@columbia.edu
barrett@ektools.UUCP (Chris Barrett) (04/29/88)
In article <529@lamont.Columbia.edu>, adam@lamont.Columbia.edu (adam levin) writes: > > I have a C Ltd hard disk and SCSI controller, and I've gotten very > > frustrated backing it up to floppies. CLtd [(316) 267-3807] is > > selling a 60 Meg tape backup unit that uses a Teac tape mechanism, > > and one price I was quoted was $1,150 !! > because when I called C Ltd. to find out if multiple volumes could be backed > up to a single tape ("Yes"), they told me that because of the speed of AmigaDOS, > the 60T 60Meg TEAC tape unit would only backup 20 Megs per tape. Hopefully this > will change with the Fast Filing System, but they aren't even going to start > trying until Commodore nails down WB3.1. The reason that the Teac drive will only back up 20Mb per tape is that the Teac tape drive doesn't support the SCSI COPY command, and Cltd is using triple redundancy to store infomation on the tape, it has nothing to do with AmigaDOS. Here in Rochester, I picked up the Kennedy 6500 tape drive with the 6510 QIC-02 formatter board for $80. It is a 65Mb drive. You really can't use the QIC-02 formatter, because it's difficult to find SCSI -> QIC-02 interfaces but Adaptec makes a SCSI -> QIC-36 interface for about $80. With the addition of a power supply and cabinet for $100, you could make a tape backup system for around $260. I bought my drive at General Surplus Electronics, 182 Avenue D, Rochester NY 14621 (716) 338-7001. The unfortunate side of this is that there is no software for this, I am trying to write some to do simple backup and restore, but I'm running into roadblocks. Does anybody have an example of how to write a SCSI command to CLtd's SCSI.device? I have no affiliation with General Surplus Electronics, I have only gotten some good deals there. Chris ...!rochester!kodak!ektools!barrett (716) 253-7253